Year: 2014

Background We know that Internet Explorer Maintenance (IEM) has been removed from IE10. Client machine with IE10+ installed cannot get the content configured in IEM from DC GPO. Here is official reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj890998.aspx Target & Suggestions Customer used to apply “Favorites and Links” via GPO by IE Maintenance. Now the question is: How to apply…

The problem happens when we navigate to a URL that does NOT contain a .NET extension – https://localhost/Test/vanityUrl. If the URL was to end in page *.aspx then the custom error handling would redirects to the customized 404 page as expected. However, if the URL is like https://localhost/Test/ or https://localhost/Test/test.123, the default “404” error would…

Self-Signed Certificate can be used widely in test, development, Local Web or Cloud Web Sites. This article will introduce a method to quickly generate Self-Signed Certificate, automatically export private key, and install the cert under LocalMachine\My and LocalMachine\Root on Win8.1 and Win2012. I also wrap the main logic in Form UI, can generate dynamic…

There are many cases when we need to perform some load testing to double confirm the fix of an issue or verify one of our assumptions. One easy way to achieve that is using the Visual Studio Test Tool. I will take the azure web site as example to show you a simple walkthrough here…

Web Service performance counters may be missing in Performance Monitor. You also cannot locate related WMI classes (e.g. Win32_PerfRawData_W3SVC_WebService) by wbemtest. Perform the following steps to restore them: 1. Open a command prompt with elevated administrator privileges. 2. Change the current directory to C:\Windows\winsxs\amd64_microsoft-windows-iis-w3svc_31bf3856ad364e35_6.1.7600.16385_none_1a0b3f4b23047c9b 3. Run the following command Lodctr w3ctrs.ini 4. Then register…

Background We have introduced two methods to add web site to Compatibility View List in blog “How to add web site to Compatibility View List via GPO” as below reference shows: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/asiatech/archive/2013/10/23/how-to-add-web-site-to-compatibility-view-list-via-gpo.aspx . Many customer asked us if sub-domain can be added into Compatibility View List. We’ll provide illustration with simple sample. Target &…

Background I have concluded four methods on “How to add trust sites into IE before IE10” as mentioned in below reference: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/asiatech/archive/2013/01/04/how-to-add-trust-sites-into-ie-before-ie10-through-group-policy.aspx. And as we known that Internet Explorer Maintenance (IEM) has been removed from IE10. Client machine with IE10+ installed cannot get the content configured in IEM from DC GPO. Here is official reference:…

A custom ASP.NET application running on IIS 7.5 (Windows 2008 R2) is using Form Authentication. The user reported that the request was always redirected to the login page after he input the correct user name and password. He noticed that the problem only existed when he used the computer name to access the application….